Hittite Hieroglyphs, by Ignace J. Gelb, in 270 searchable and bookmarked pdf pages.  Download contains all three volumes of this important work published between 1931 and 1942 by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The indigenous script described consists of 500 unique signs, known from central and southern Asia Minor and northern Syria, and in use between 1000 and 700 B.C.  Subsequently, in 1973, the underlying language was found to be Luwian, rather than Hittite, although several of the symbols also appear in Hittite, Hurrian, and Urartian. Wikipedia entries ("Anatolian Hieroglyphs," "Hieroglyphic Luwian") describe the symbols and their reclassification.  Compiled by Robert Bedrosian.

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